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As he rode away from the Flat, setting out on a journey which might lead him to riches greater than those of his rival, Tony for the first time in his life wished for closer sympathy between some of his brothers and himself, so that he might have made a confidant of one, and enlisted his help in ascertaining whether matters between Ailleen and Dickson really were as he feared.
And as it came round, Ailleen saw, half hidden by the scrub, Willy Dickson standing beside his horse, and the figure of a girl disappearing behind the bushes. She had ridden past the spot before she could pull in her horse, but as soon as she could check him, she rode back to where Dickson was standing. As she approached, he stepped out into the open and came to meet her. "Where has Nellie gone?"
Springing from the saddle a few moments later, he fastened the bridle round the hand-rail which served as the blind woman's guide to and from the house and the trees, and hastened to where Ailleen was standing at the top of the steps. "I only heard last night, Ailleen," he said simply, as he came and took both her hands in his. "I I don't know what to say; but you know, don't you?"
"Mrs. Dickson is here. She's blind. Come and tell her. She would not believe me," Ailleen exclaimed, as she turned to hurry back to where the blind woman was sitting. Slaughter jumped off his horse and came close under the verandah. "Miss," he exclaimed; and Ailleen turned back. "Begging your pardon, miss," he went on, watching her face with anxious eyes, "but I've come for you, not for them.
Then Ailleen expected and hoped to see him again, but she only heard of him through Dickson, only heard of him under conditions which made her resentful. Not only had Tony apparently forgotten her, but Nellie Murray also had done so. She happened to remark to Dickson on one occasion how curious it was that Nellie had not been over to the station.
Then they sat, wherever there was shade, and waited, uneasy lest the quick-tongued Ailleen should again swoop down upon them with anger which they knew was just, and yet unable to do otherwise than wait, if only to see whether Slaughter would come, and what he would do when he did come.
Ailleen, seeing the look and the gesture, sprang at him and seized his arm. "Stop!" she cried. "Would you strike a helpless woman like that?" He looked at her with his blazing eyes. "A woman?" he said hoarsely. "She's a fiend a lying fiend. I have waited to kill her. Now the time has come. Now I can "
You know what you said and promised. If I tell Bobby he'll kill you, see if he won't." The watery eyes were shifting rapidly from one side to the other, for there were many things which had occurred between him and Nellie about which he was by no means anxious Ailleen, least of any one, should know.
"Ask Ailleen. She will tell you when. It was the day the rail broke." "Why, that was Tony Tony Taylor," Ailleen exclaimed, glad of any chance of interposing between the two. Slaughter looked at her wonderingly, and as he looked there came a curious expression into his eyes. "I must have been blind, I take it," he said, more as though he were speaking to himself. "I must have been blind up to now."
"Why can't we all keep together? What's the good of splitting up?" Dickson answered, as he came alongside Ailleen on the opposite side to young Murray. The latter looked over at him with an expression that showed he at least had a considerable objection to keeping all together.
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